Best movies of 2016 on amazon prime

La La Land(2016)

Combined Rating:
96
Combined Critics Rating: 96

While waiting for their big breaks, two proper L.A. dreamers, a suavely- charming, soft-spoken jazz pianist and a brilliant, vivacious playwright, attempt to reconcile aspirations and relationship in a magical old-school romance.



Manchester by the Sea(2016)

Combined Rating:
95
Combined Critics Rating: 95

A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.



Paterson(2016)

Combined Rating:
88
Combined Critics Rating: 90

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.



Fences(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 85

A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.



The Handmaiden(2016)

Combined Rating:
86
Combined Critics Rating: 86

A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.



Captain Fantastic(2016)

Combined Rating:
85
Combined Critics Rating: 80

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.



Café Society(2016)

Combined Rating:
81
Combined Critics Rating: 77

In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man.



The Neon Demon(2016)

Combined Rating:
77
Combined Critics Rating: 71

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.



Whiskey Tango Foxtrot(2016)

Combined Rating:
76
Combined Critics Rating: 72

A journalist recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan.



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows(2016)

Combined Rating:
71
Combined Critics Rating: 61

After facing Shredder, who has joined forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady to take over the world, the Turtles must confront an even greater nemesis: the notorious Krang.



Anthropoid(2016)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 65

Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.



Imperium(2016)

Combined Rating:
70
Combined Critics Rating: 65

A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.



Denial(2016)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 72

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.



Elvis & Nixon(2016)

Combined Rating:
66
Combined Critics Rating: 70

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.



Dirty Grandpa(2016)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 50

Right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a lecherous former Army Lieutenant-Colonel, to Florida for spring break.



Genius(2016)

Combined Rating:
64
Combined Critics Rating: 64

A chronicle of Max Perkins's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.



Wiener-Dog(2016)

Combined Rating:
63
Combined Critics Rating: 70

A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.



A Quiet Passion(2016)

Combined Rating:
62
Combined Critics Rating: 80

The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.



Brimstone(2016)

Combined Rating:
60
Combined Critics Rating: 54

From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.



The Choice(2016)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.




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